DNA-cation interactions: The major and minor grooves are flexible ionophores

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 293-301

  Hud, Nicholas V ^a   Polak, Matjaž ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Laboratory for Polymer Chemistry and Technology   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVALENT CATION; DNA; HEXAMETHOXYSPHERAND; IONOPHORE; MONOVALENT CATION; NONACTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CATIONS; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0035367927     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00205-0     Document Type: Review

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